hirudinée
\i.ʁy.di.ne\
The verdict
“hirudinée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ver annélide du type de la sangsue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hirudinee · hirudinée · French
hirudinée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hirudinée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.ʁy.di.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
hirudinée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.ʁy.di.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ver annélide du type de la sangsue.".
Zero misspellings are on record for hirudinée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hirudinée, spelled H-I-R-U-D-I-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Ver annélide du type de la sangsue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hirudinée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] retirer l'avide hirudinée juste après le temps moral d'une succion consciencieuse
Cette locution pittoresque rappelle la faculté que possède cette hirudinée de se fixer, de se coller à la peau de l’homme ou des animaux.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.